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Kindle touch with ssh to wi-fi enabled

Lately, I’ve spent quite a lot of time playing with my Kindle. The motivation was mostly its sloppiness – after having it for 1.5 year, my Kindle became very slow and unresponsive… I decided to factory reset it. And while doing it, I’ve checked if I maybe the jailbreak of newer firmware is possible (last time I’ve checked over a year ago it wasn’t).
To my big joy, I found these days it’s fairly easy to jailbreak any kindle by downgrading it’s firmware.
But this isn’t the focus of this post. Here I would like to share my experience with enabling ssh access to my Kindle. Why anyone would do that? Kindle is ARM-processor powered computer with Linux installed. So having SSH access, you can setup your Kindle to do lots of useful stuff. But about that, I’ll write in the next posts 😉
Here is how to proceed: